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Taking Down the System, Seductively: On Women Who Use Beauty as Currency
Celine Saintclare Recommends Mona Awad, Emma Cline, Frances Cha, and More
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring New Titles by Hisham Matar, Álvaro Enrigue, Rachel Slade, and More
Priya Guns on Writing in Times of Crisis
“No, it’s never just right when our work is commodified. People speak for themselves.”
All The Songs We Cannot Hear: On the Challenges of a Life Without Sound
Matt Hay Considers the Importance of Music for the Hearing Impaired
Vanessa Chan on How She Structured The Storm We Made
In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“There is not a banal sentence or purple patch to be found in this book, which only a poet could have written.”
Rebecca Solnit: Slow Change Can Be Radical Change
“Describing the slowness of change is often confused with acceptance of the status quo. It’s really the opposite.”
How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rose Up and Won an Underdog Political Victory
Joshua Green Details AOC’s Grassroots Campaign Against the Incumbent Joseph Crowley
The Element That Defines America: Ten Great American Poems (and a Whole Book of Poetry) About Fire
Katie Peterson Recommends Work by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Douglas Kearney, and More
“In the Countryside.” A Poem-Comic by Lauren Haldeman and Jesse Nathan
An Unclassifiable Work of Art
Selfishly Curated Experiences: How Planning Trips Can Inform Novel Writing
İnci Atrek on Channeling the Intense Emotions of Travel Into Fiction
Lauren Groff on Opening a Bookstore in Florida
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
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